Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2015 to Question 221195, on radicalism, what proportion of referrals to Channel were for far right concerns.

Since Channel was rolled out nationally in 2012, over 2000 people have been referred to the programme, and hundreds have been offered support across all forms of extremism.

The Home Office intends to publish detailed data on the Channel programme shortly. Before this happens, the Hon. Member may find it useful to visit the website of the Association of Chief Police Officers which has published its own data on Channel from April 2007 which also covers the pilot phase:

http://www.acpo.police.uk/ACPOBusinessAreas/PREVENT/NationalChannelReferralFigures.aspx